Very good news for Ben, who is a big New England Patriots football fan. The team won their divisional playoff game and will be headed to the AFC Championship game this coming Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs! If the Patriots win that game, they’ll be headed to the Super Bowl again.

The 46-year-old Justice League actor is set to star in the upcoming I Am Still Alive, based on the Kate Alice Marshall novel, for which Universal Pictures has optioned movie rights, Deadline confirmed on Wednesday (December 19).

The novel is described as “Wild meets The Revenant, infused with ferocious girl power. Jess is a teenage every-girl who, after a car crash kills her mother and leaves her injured, is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness and adapt to a new way of life. But when certain events leave her stranded, far away from any help, with only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined.”

Ben will play the father in the movie, which will be adapted by Lori Evans Taylor.

Here’s the synopsis: A group of former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America. For the first time in their prestigious careers these unsung heroes undertake this dangerous mission for self instead of country. But when events take an unexpected turn and threaten to spiral out of control, their skills, their loyalties and their morals are pushed to a breaking point in an epic battle for survival.